Improved folding chair



ilttrd ltesten @wat @Mina Leners Patent No'. 104,965, dated July 5, 1870.

IMPROVED FOLDING CHAIR.

w The Schedule referred to. in these Letten Patent and making part of the same To allwhom'it may concern Be it known that I, MARTIN LECHLER, of the city of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Folding Chair; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof', which will enable others skilled in theart to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification.

Figure 1 represents a side view of my improved chair, showing it folded together. i

Figure 2 is a front elevation of the same.

Figure 3 is a longitudinal section of the same, showing it extended.

Figure 4 is an inverted plan view of the same.v

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention Vrelates to a new folding easy-chair, which is made entirely without complicated machinery,

`but so that it may readily be converted into a bed or lounge. e

The invention consists7 chiefly, in such a construction of the frame which connects the -rear and front parts of the chairthat the said frame serves as a support for the arm-rest of the chair, and as the middleV standard of the extension bed, and, in combination therewith, a novel slide or bolt, for locking the extended bedin the desired position.

A A, in the drawing, are the side pieces of the main body of the chair.

iThey form the sides ofthe back, andi-each forward nearly to the front legs B B, where they'i-est on the floor.

The side pieces are held together by suitable crosspieces a a.

C C are the rear legs, projecting backward from the side pieces A, and rigidly attached to the same. The front legs B are rigidly attached to the front .end'of a frame, D, of which the rear end rests upon the side pieces A in about a horizontal position.

E E are triangular frames or plates, which are, by

sides of the into a mortise of the armrest above it, and locksv thereby all parts' of the chair in the desired contracted position, all as shown in figs'. 1 and 2.

For formi-ng the extension, the frame D is drawn forward, so as to swing the frames E with their formel-ly upper ends down. The lower ends of the side pieces A will be thereby elevated and brought in line with .the frame'. D, as in fig. 3. The frames E'will then serve as middle legs for the support of the adjoining ends of the frames A D.

Tov the underside of the front cross-bar a is pivoted a lever, f, which is, by links g g, connected with two sliding bolts, G G, that can, by a motion of the lever, be carried through openings of the legs E, for the purpose of locking the same in the upright position to the frame A. Thus all the parts are properly locked.

The front ends of the arm-supports rest on the side pieces A, and t over small pins h'projecting therefrom, as shown in Iig. 3.

Having thus described my invention, y

1 claim as new andvdesire to secure by Letters Patentr- 1. The combination of the frames A D with the connecting-frames E, ,which serve as legs for the extension bed, substantially as herein shown and described.A

2. In combination with the above, the slide vbolts G, connected, by the links g, with thelever f, for locking the legs, substantially as herein shown and described.

MARTIN LECHLER.

itnesses GEO. W. MABEE, T. B. Mosman. 

